Most Teens Bounce Back: Using Diary Methodsto Examine How Quickly Teens Recover From Episodic Online Risk Exposure

Keywords

Adolescent online safety; Cyberbullying; Diary study; Explicit content; Information breaches; Privacy; Sexual solicitations

Abstract

Cross-sectional research suggests that online risk exposure (e.g., cyberbullying, sexual solicitations, and explicit content) may negatively impact teens, increasing concerns over the risks teens are exposed to online. Yet, there has been little research as to how these experiences impact teens' mood over time, or how long these effects may last. To examine the effects of online risk exposure on mood, we asked 68 teens to report their weekly online risk experiences, emotions, and sense of well-being for two months. We found that teens experienced more negative emotions the week that they reported cyberbullying and exposure to explicit content, but these effects were gone one week later. In addition, teens reported a slight increase in positive emotions and mental well-being during weeks they were exposed to other risks. Our results suggest that most of the risks teens in our study experienced online only pose brief negative effects, if any, and initiates a discussion on how our society may overly problematize the negative effects of online risk exposure on teens.

Publication Date

11-1-2017

Publication Title

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Volume

1

Issue

CSCW

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3134711

Socpus ID

85066418213 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85066418213

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